Horford only has a negative +/- because he played with the bench for extended minutes.

Horford was not good with the bench on offense in that stretch. He passed up a wide open score in the paint to kick out to three (another bad Rozier brick), bobbled a dime from Smart, and in general didn't look for his shot much when it was needed.

despite memphis cutting their deficit, i enjoyed this half, this team has great promise

up by eight at the half and on the road, i'll take it. celtics going to win this one. looking forward to the second half.

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Well, would you look at that. The bench is giving up points even to this scrub team.

At this point my only guess is that Brad is trolling us all with these continued dumb rotations with the bench. Does anyone really believe that a Larkin, Rozier, Smart, Theis, and Al lineup will work out there? Ugh, at least have one of Brown or Tatum out there, too.

It really should not be this difficult.

I think a lot of coaches look (stubbornly) at the long game, meaning he wants this unit to figure it out come playoffs. And he seems to have emphasized limiting starters' mins to be healthy for the playoffs. I remember IT mentioning that right before the playoffs last year.

Sure, which is definitely smart. But you can still stagger these guys better without significantly increasing our main guys' minutes. Yeah, it'll mean fewer minutes with your five preferred guys on the floor all at once, but we'd certainly make up for that by not going on huge scoring deficits in those all/primary bench lineups.

This is especially true once Morris gets back and is healthy, let alone Hayward, too. There's just no reason whatsoever that Brad can't always have two of Kyrie, Al, Tatum, Brown, or Morris out there, yet he regularly goes with only one or none of those guys in the lineup, which just doesn't make sense to me given how bad our bench has struggled.

Yeah, I mean I agree with you. But Bradley seems to get stuck in his ways. The bench truly does suck though. I wish we had drafted Portis over Rozier. And Hayward's injury screwed the bench up.

Honestly the offense needs to run through Tatum on the bench... Brad already staggers his minutes so he plays with the bench. He’s the only consistent scorer.

People need to give this idea up this year. Tatum does not consistently show enough ability to find his own shot, create for others, and shoot off the dribble to positively run a bench unit in the NBA yet. He shows flashes but it is not there, even when he is with the starters who draw more attention he isn't lighting it up. He is hitting good open shots. With a defense focusing on him, he can't run anything yet.